Afro-Caribbean Poetry in English

Bartosz Wójcik

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 13
• This study presents the complex phenomenon of Afro-Caribbean poetry in English, ranging from Jamaican classic dub poetry of the 1970s to (Black) Briti... Lees meer

The Ordinary and the Short Story

Milosz Wojtyna

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 12
• The book looks at the uses of the ordinary in the short stories of T.F. Powys and V.S. Pritchett. It observes two models the theme is explored in: the... Lees meer

Glorious Outlaws

Izabela Morska

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 14
• This book addresses financial, social, historical, and cultural debt in postcolonial fiction. It examines how literary characters including servants, ... Lees meer

Painter's Word

Edyta Frelik

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 15
• This book discusses the writings of three 20th-century American painters in the context of the historical discourse about inter-art analogies and riva... Lees meer

Nature Walks

Anna Dziok

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 38
• Nature Walks examines pedestrianism in the long history of British travel writing and examines the consequences that foot mobility has for the walking... Lees meer

Ways of Pleasure

Dominika Oramus

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 19
• The book demonstrates the thematic unity underlying Carter's fiction and non-fiction, highlighting their interdependence and demonstrating how her tex... Lees meer

Crime Fiction

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 24
• This compilation of essays attempts to trace the reasons behind the ongoing popularity of crime fiction. It contains twenty-one original essays writte... Lees meer

In Wonder, Love and Praise

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 28
• By close readings of poems and by theoretical analysis involving theology, philosophy and literary criticism, this collection of essays explores poetr... Lees meer

Archaization in Literary Translation as Nostalgic Pastiche

Krzysztof Filip Rudolf

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 27
• The book focuses on the phenomenon of archaization in literary translation. It shows that archaization is closely linked with nostalgia, both phenomen... Lees meer

Women in Edward Bond

Susana Nicolás Román

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 25
• The book attempts to cover the misunderstanding of the female characters in Edward Bond's plays. None of the criticism has developed specifically the ... Lees meer

The Literary Art of Ali Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 31
• This volume contains a selection of articles focussed on analysis and interpretation of Ali Smith's literary output. It aims to explore key areas of h... Lees meer

Building (in) the Promised Land

Grzegorz Koneczniak

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 35
• This book offers new readings of recent Irish plays. Following C. Morash's historiographic metaphor of Babel, it combines this and other appropriation... Lees meer

Time and Vision Machines in Thomas Pynchon's Novels

Arkadiusz Misztal

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 29
• The book studies the relations between time and visual technologies in the oeuvre of Thomas Pynchon within the framework of the culture and politics o... Lees meer

Samuel Beckett's Signature in Years 1929-1938

Rafal Borkowski

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 37
• The book offers new readings of Samuel Beckett's short stories and novels written between 1929 and 1938 in the context of his signature. The signature... Lees meer

The Art Of Cultural Memory

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 39
• The volume consists of 15 papers discussing a vast array of issues and aspects relating to the concept of cultural memory. Taking as a standpoint the ... Lees meer

Constructing Identity

Agata Handley

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 18
• The author analyses the multi-layered and multidimensional theme of identity construction recurring in Tony Harrison's work from the seventies onwards... Lees meer

Byron

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 30
• This book is a study of the amorphous, fragmented and digressive world of G. G. Byron's poetic works, and the themes of mutability, deformation and tr... Lees meer

Dress as Metaphor - British Female Fashion and Social Change in the 20th Century

Katarzyna Kociolek

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 32
• This book traces the interconnectedness of women's sartorial practices and social change in 20th-century Britain. Based on a wide range of cultural te... Lees meer

A 'Fourth Way' to Tell the Story

Barbara Miceli

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 36
• The study analyzes the factual and fictional elements in three novels by Joyce Carol Oates. The innovative genre used, which separates itself from pre... Lees meer

Charles Darwin's Looking Glass

Dominika Oramus

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 11
• The book offers comparative analysis of diverse Darwinism-inspired discourses such as post-modern novels, science fiction, popular science and nature ... Lees meer

Redefining the Fringes in Celtic Studies

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 26
• The book is a collection of essays in the language, literature and history of the broadly speaking Celtic world. By bringing together heterogeneous bu... Lees meer

Paul Auster's (Post)Modern Chronotopes:

Julia Seltnerajch

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 42
• The study focuses on spatio-temporal relations and their dependence on literary genres in Paul Auster's fiction. The author examines how selected nove... Lees meer

Breaking the Silence

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 10
• This collection of essays is devoted to the intersections of poetic speech, literary criticism, theology and philosophy. The emphasis falls on the con... Lees meer

Regeneration, Citizenship, and Justice in the American City since the 1970s

Aneta Dybska

• Hardcover | Engels | Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture | nr. 20
• This interdisciplinary study of the post-industrial American city examines the linkages between urban regeneration policies, citizenship, and social j... Lees meer